Crowdsourcing of virtual worlds


	Crowdsourcing of virtual worlds

aplink

1-5-2008 8:28 PM

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virtual worlds, design, sculpting

aplink says:

Making Virtual Worlds more creative friendly for those with less creative, design skills and non technical masses...

I also learnt to new words from this review article...

Quote: "Ultimately, Koltun and his fellow researchers hope to produce a number of similar tools for other objects in order to allow anyone to contribute to the look and feel of virtual worlds. "We want to ensure that users always have something in front of them and are not confronted with the daunting task of sculpting," he said. As everything from games to entire communities move into user-generated virtual worlds, these tools should help ensure that limited design skills and artistic ability don't prevent anyone from shaping those worlds."

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